Tony’s Terra Firma

by Tony Shepley, July marked the 40th anniversary of Shepley. What an interesting milestone! At 40, we are supposed to be old enough to know better but young enough to live our dreams. Mentally I still have myself pegged at 35. Our sons think that is amusing so my vision of what I look like, Read More

by Tony Shepley, How much has our world changed since 40 years ago? In 1978, we were just being exposed to the first video games. Pong was a very basic tennis style video game and Space Invaders was one of the first battle games, crude but charming. Graphics were rudimentary and who could forsee the Read More

by Tony Shepley, Parallel Processing is a computer term that describes the way in which a computer can perform multiple processing functions or multiple storage functions at the same time. Computers use this to either increase their processing speed or create back up redundancy that protects data integrity, so parallel processing is in many ways Read More

by Tony Shepley, Boy, did I unleash a firestorm of response to the article I wrote about customers wanting “More, More, More” recently. People have gone out of their way to tell me stories of how customers have put them through the wringer to quote a job six ways to Sunday, only to dismiss them Read More

by Tony Shepley, This past year has seen some major market upheaval because of the re-introduction of Countervailing Duties on softwood lumber from Canada. Please note the use of the word re-introduction. This isn’t our first time, just our next time with duties. Common questions about duties are “Why”, “When”, “Where” and “What For”? The Read More

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